Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, William Vann, Joshua Ryan & Richard Horne – I Vow to Thee, My Country (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:16 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © SOMM Recordings
SOMM RECORDINGS announces the release of I Vow to Thee, My Country, believed to be the first recording to feature all of Gustav Holst’s sacred choral music, by the Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea directed by William Vann, with organist Joshua Ryan and Richard Horne on tubular and bass bells.
Read moreJoshua Ryan, William Vann, Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea – Vaughan Williams: Earth’s Wide Bounds (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:05 minutes | 1,37 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Albion
The centerpiece here is the first complete recording of the Communion Service in G minor – the 1923 English translation and revision of the Latin Mass in G minor which had been published just a year earlier. In keeping with the 1662 Anglican communion service then in use, the Gloria comes at the end; the service begins with sung responses to the ten commandments, read for us here by Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury. Five movements require a quartet as well as a double chorus.
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Joshua Ryan, William Vann, Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea – Vaughan Williams: Earth’s Wide Bounds (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:05 minutes | 1,37 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Albion
The centerpiece here is the first complete recording of the Communion Service in G minor – the 1923 English translation and revision of the Latin Mass in G minor which had been published just a year earlier. In keeping with the 1662 Anglican communion service then in use, the Gloria comes at the end; the service begins with sung responses to the ten commandments, read for us here by Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury. Five movements require a quartet as well as a double chorus.
(more…)